Salt is loaded onto a truck at the Hon Khoi salt export company in Khanh Hoa province (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) –Vietnam’s unsold salt volume decreased in the first half of 2017, the result oflower productivity caused by complicated weather.
Unsold salt in the six months amounted to morethan 385,460 tonnes, 45 percent of the unsold volume in the same period lastyear, according to the Department of Cooperatives and Rural Development underthe Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Of that amount, more than 8,110 tonnes was inthe northern region, 202,460 tonnes in the central region and 174,890 tonnes inthe south.
About 13,643ha of salt were farmed betweenJanuary and June, generating 405,170 tonnes of salt, equivalent to only 40.7percent of the same period in 2016.
This included 9,330ha of salt farmed bytraditional methods and another 4,313ha farmed by industrial methods,respectively producing 317,207 tonnes and 84,863 tonnes.-VNA
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